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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Dec 27, 2013 - 10:31am PT
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From our Chinese affiliate.
Icebreaker racing ...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/27/icebreakers-racing-to-rescue-ship-trapped-in-ice-near-antarctica/
I was wondering whether the rescue will count as 12 days worth of presents.
From our American affiliate.
Selling Girl Scout Cookies helps girls develop 5 skills ...
Goal Setting, Decision Making, Money Management, People Skills, Business Ethics.
I must however question the ethics part. Two Tagalong cookies contain 5 grams of saturated fat plus 8 grams of sugar. I was wondering if they couldn't find another product to peddle which might be a little bit more heathful.
And if that does not give uPaws, then consider the case of Surfer's Eye
(Pterygium, probably climbers are susceptible as well).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 27, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
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Booty!
Thank you, guys and girls.
I got back after six, having done Sunnyside with my neice, Amy, and we visited the Brains, then we split up and she drove to her mom's, and I booked home, cuz I KNEW something was gonna happen.
I insured that with a little sunny surprise for neebee. You may receive it in three days. Let's hope so.
Truthfully, our expedition was one of those things you don't want to go through.
1. Amy could not get up the chimney with the backpack. We stuffed it with one CPO shirt I had worn, didn't need on the climb, her jacket, too, and a downie I'd carted along. The long lens. My camera, her camera, her cigs, my pipe, her brush, my wallet, keys, z headlamps (Fletcher--it's coming back with the "goods" next weekend and sorry for the delay on that), and a bottle of water.
2. I climbed fine with the rope and it felt good to lead that with no pro, just like I used to do on the face--the chimney's too much effort anyway, but her shoes were not giving her the confidence for that, so she elected the chimney. I rapped down, saying "Some other WARM sunny day." It was 34 degrees in the valley at nine, when I pulled into Camp 4. The clothing was needed, the walking barely kept us warm due to my slothful pace--Fletcher and CC and T Hocking know about that.
So she learned the trad basics, the bowline on a coil, the proper belay signals, how to throw a rope for rapping, how to coil it, and the only thing I didn't show her was belaying itself, as she had done some at Red Rocks, where her hiking group heads on weekends.
She loved the experience, as I knew she would. She's a kindergarten teacher in LV, and when she met Merry the Mrs. Brain, they had a good chat about her trying to apply at Yosemite's school for a position. Couldn't hurt. NO O, CC, but to quote Amy, "It's not for me any more." She's divorcing, see.
It was a beautiful morning and then the sun scum came and stayed. It was warmish, but coldish, too. We had twenty bucks to blow at Degnan's from Werner's selling the last of my iron. We had sandwiches and beer and then hit the road.
At Degnan's true to the scarfer's code, I bagged a sandwwich from one of the picnic tables that had been sitting there unattended while we ate. What else would one of you do? Look for the stupid owner?
Thanks again, Werner. And Merry, wonderful to see you. And your cat's really not named Cherry (where did I get that?), it's "Simon" but really "Sy" but Werner called her Simon, so. And she's not male. Beauty in the fur.
DO NOT LET THE CAT OUT should be a name of a climb up back of your place.
And now for some cheese & crackers and that left-over Half Dome brew.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 27, 2013 - 10:24pm PT
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Elephant bracelets are cool. NEVER take one off. EVER.
Is that YOUR eye, man? Mine only has a synthetic lens.
I wore the tie-dye, Cosmic, and I'm sure it helped my confidence. The approach shoes were just the ticket for this stuff today, but I will send the Fires. Thanks, Dwain. Much appreciated.
AND GENE, would you give me a call tonight or tomorrow, I'm having trouble with the phone. I'll email tonight anyway.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 27, 2013 - 10:38pm PT
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Upon opening the package, lo! the strapping is from the USPS, not neebee, I know she doesn't use plastic strapping. And there was a big old wad of clear plastic bubble wrap on top of the wadded wrapping paper used in the first packaging.
Here is what I found inside the box.
Solves the mystery, but still...
So far, no damage apparent, but I haven't dug into it yet.
The prayers of the mousehold for your problems with family, neebee.
I'll be opening only those you've gone over, the biscuits and books, fer sure. And the picture from Barbariano the Handsome.
Sunsight at Planada and sunclipse at the top of Guadalupe Grade.
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Barbarian
climber
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Dec 27, 2013 - 11:17pm PT
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Neebee is going to breathe a huge sigh of relief now that the box has arrived! Best wishes to you my friend!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Dec 27, 2013 - 11:38pm PT
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Bearly anyone there for the show.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 27, 2013 - 11:57pm PT
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Thanks, Barbarina, and thanks for the picture. It's real mellow, like y'all.
BTW, man, Melanie's no longer interested in her soldier boy. He's being assigned to cook's school. She is disenchanted. She asked about the handsome tall guy with the camera. Oh, she did, too!
Feralfae
Fruitcake becomes this crowd and the amount of foil on that thing is like armor plating. You know, man can't live on fruitcake alone, but mice do their very best! The tea is very nice--I hardly ever get exotic tea.T Hocking's group has a real nice song named dragonfly. BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
I'd like to state that the fruitcake is beaucoup #1!
T Hocking
Thanks for the faux silver tray, the cheeses, and the crackers. This time of year, the Cheeses of Nazareth are mostly sold out. I understand. The string cheese is fine. The mice are using it to jump rope.
What are these other wee sleekit beasties in these packages? The second wave has landed.
neebee, I shall attend that matter next Monday, when the opportunity presents itself.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 28, 2013 - 07:49am PT
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hey there say, mouse... the photos are not loading... are all 13 gifts in there... hope so... wehww...
okay, today, was for fletcher, number 5...
and even, now, as i was not here to post...
number, 6... skully should be up....
i will post the verses... and you can share to them, YOUR THANKS for their GIFST... TO YOU...
FLETCHER, just happened to be in a position to purchase a special MOUSE for you gift... you will see...
(have you been finding all the mice, as well)...
i can't tell, yet, but i sure hope this was STILL A BIG BOX AND not taken apartt??????
your FLAMES (posters) here, LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCH...
YES, A BIT GOOFY you all can be ;)... and mysterious words, abound...
but you create much:
merced history notes here... and climbing history notes... and fun art...
so we can just take care over the 'slippery stones' or 'mossy ones' that 'only flames' can really understand here, and:
we can THUS ENJOY the:
river of pics, notes, and even california scenery of yosemite and who KNOWS WHAT ALL that appears from the ol' camera!
thank you for that... and happy 12 days AFTER CHRISTMAS, :))
WELL HERE ARE THE VERSES FOR THE NEXT GIFT,
FLETCH IS FIVE, AND SKULLY IS SIX:
On the fifth day towards Christmas, came something to keep him warm
and cozy...
as about more gifts, he NOW gets NOSY!...
AND on the sixth day towards Christmas, speaking of nosy and warm and cozy, most likely he needs a gift for OUTSIDE...
one that will work on trips to town, YET, still function, for when at home, he does ABIDE...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 28, 2013 - 07:58am PT
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hey there say, mouse... okay, i SAW the box... it still looks big...
so EVERYTHING all 13, are in it, right???
wow, poem, too? on top, and the directions???
oh my...
say, yep, i just saw the mice are there:
What are these other wee sleekit beasties in these packages? The second wave has landed
wow!
GLAD I DID NOT POST THE NEXT TWO GIFTS... :o
EDIT:
OOOPS, WAS SO excited, please forgive, forgot to say how wonderful to
see the share, about your niece... the pics are loading now, too!
god bless...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 28, 2013 - 10:59am PT
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The booklist:
Soups, Stews, and Casseroles
The FINE Wines of California (Is there a "Good Enough Wines of Minnesota?")
America's Seashore Wonderlands
California Scenic Highway No. 1 (Indeed "Numbah One!")
A vintage 1965 copy of Christmas Ideals (Treasure Chest of "good things" predating Martha)
Dider's Regest ON THE ROAD USA (On a fresh roll of Charmin, my true love gave to me...Take that Mister Kerouac!)
Sleekit: sleek, smooth (indeed they are, eerily so)
crafty, deceitful (as they must)
All things are frozen outside today. Merced temperature is all of 32 degrees and if you think I'm going out photographing in freezing fog, yer nuts, nuttier than a fruitcake.
Fruitcake? Let us eat the fruitcake!Opened books. Fletcher knows.Gene, call me this a.m., please.
Will wait till later on today when people are awake to enjoy the next two gifts.
I'd just like to say, and Amy agrees, that the only appropriate response to all this outpouring of gratitude is this.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 28, 2013 - 01:12pm PT
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It has come to my attn. that neebee bought the books. She must, therefore, have bought the rest of the gifts. Boxed it all up. It weighed enough, that's for sure, maybe twenty-five to thirty pounds. It was wheeled up here to Middle Earth on a dolly, not a dollie like in the Dolly-mights.
I was just showing these gifts to the gal downstairs, Marina, and her daughter, a three-year-lol'd, and I paid her the ten I owed for some smoke her old man sold me, and she went, "We were on our last dollar."
The Lord is a Mystery unto me. That He always shall be.
And if I don't get it today, then tomorrow, maybe.
The Christmas that kept on giving, once it got underway.
Marina mentioned she is still getting boxes of gifts, as well, so this year has been a bear for the USPS, and it can logically get only worse. I have discovered that not just the USPS, but both the VA and the IRS as well, all fit into the same category, that is, gov't. entities turned into business concerns which the gov't can't control since they are what they are. I don't know what that portends, but it fits the capitalistic profile to a T.
Speaking of tea, since Gene spilled the beans about neebee's HUGE self-assignment, the fruitcake is especially good if heated in the 'wave and drunk with Folger's Crystals that are cooked for six minutes in the boiling water of a cup in the 'wave, as well, but it takes five minutes to cool enough to drink. The flavor is...unique.
As is neebee, who's much more than appreciated, she's LOVED!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 28, 2013 - 01:24pm PT
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hey there say, mouse.... wow...wow...wow... and oh my, wow!...
the gifts are all there... oh my and wow...
you know what... this is good diversion to keep my mind busy, while i wait for my mom again, to call, about my dad :(
good to stay busy... then pray... then stay busy, etc.. etc...
WOW, MOUSE AND YOU GUYS!!!! I WAS NOT SURE IF WE WOULD SEE THIS PILE
OF STUFF, OH MY!!!!!...
IT IS TWICE as special now... (like when the prodigal son came home to his daddy) ;)
the wandering mice, have come home!
say, um, i think that ONE mouse, is laying on his back, perhaps THAT
is why his fur is riled up... (like cats, they make like strokes the wrong way) ;)
wow, so, since we skipped yesterday, you can either stick with 5,
or go with 5 and 6, but NO MORE! HEE HEE, until tomorrow then, :)
say, this get you up to new year, i wonder--yeah, but you will
go until the FOURTH day, or so?
WOW, say, is there any fruitcake left to view?
or is my download not working, :)
do you write 'taste-test-reviews' ;)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 28, 2013 - 01:32pm PT
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hey there say, mouse...
here is how it went...
i was praying one eve, while, looking in the mirror, and thinking of my
twin buddies and how i missed them...
then, i was thinking of other buddies and how they all appreciate each other, and well, i thought about you, and the flames, since i
see YOUR BUDDY COMMARADIER EVERY EVE...
AND IT JUST CAME TO ME:
on the 12 days of christmas, the song... not sure why...
so then, i got the idea...
mouse misses HIS BUDDIES, TOO, as they are all around...
(those on the flames...)...
so i picked 12 of them and email them...
told them i HAD A LIST OF THINGS... AND IF THEY COULD,
(LIKE IF they were all here, etc)
what WOULD THEY PICK??? on that list, to send to you
(as if they BOUGHT IT)
did it this way, as it was cheaper on the pocket book for
them, easy to shop, like me BEING THEIR AMAZON.COM)
THEN, after they picked, i looked for these things that they
would like YOU TO HAVE, TO BE FROM THEM...
and then, i boxed them up for you...
now, barbarian, already HAPPENED TO HAVE a gift, so he mailed it here...
and fletcher had a neat idea, of what to BUY to put on his gift,
to you...
so these are as i was the AMAZON.COM STORE...
SO i am not that special, i am just the 'storefront'...
they were the BIG HEARTED GUYS that played along...
they sure could have brushed me off, as 'oh you silly gal'
(you know, these big tough climber flame-guys) ...
but no! oh no! there merced-mouse is a good buddy...
like my twin buddies, when i started thinking of all this...
just by looking in the mirror and thinkng
how christmas is the season for good buddy-ship!!!!
and there you go!
made the poem... :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 28, 2013 - 01:39pm PT
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hey there say... and you know... this is the SUPER FUN!
THE LAST ITEM ON THE LIST WAS THIS:
homemade fruitcake...
so i just reckoned i'd bake it, as i planned on doing...
wouldn't quite have the 'spunk' in it, as i was running low,
by then...
well, out of the wild blue yonder, JUST IN TIME,
feralfae alighted on the 'bush of hope' and
said 'pick me!' and:
i let her know the last item left, was the fruitcake,
though, she PICKED IT ANYWAY, as--she had a friend that made the BEST FRUITCAKES...
so this is all feralfae here...
SHE LOVED doing this so much!! you see why i was soooo concerned,
as to the box?? and what happened...
she paid for that, and shipped it to me, too... :)
(even kept it hidden in her freezer, 'til time to send)...
every gift is TAILOR made, as best i could to the guys that
picked off the list...
:)
thus, the secret project post, at taco:
number 'whatever' IS NOW TAKEN, !
SEE?
THEY HAD TO PICK YOUR GIFT... :)
edit:
you know, the box, the gal said, later, was .5 overthe 32lbs. so
that must be why it was sent to FREIGHT and once there, the box
could not handle REAL freight bumping around it?
so they redid it all,etc.. .oh my :O
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 28, 2013 - 01:52pm PT
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I made sure that Marina's family got some. Her daughter spit out the glace cherry. You either like or dislike glazed fruit, I think. It's sort of the same on the Taco. Some can't get it, some do. That extra .5 pounds was aluminum foil!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 28, 2013 - 02:21pm PT
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hey there say, mouse...
now THAT is funny!!! rotflwc (rolling on the floor laughing with critters)...
the ALUMINUM FOILED the box... :O
;)
and, second laugh of the day:
looks more like a sewer rat than a mouse--you best check them
all for their ID...
oh my, :O
well, checked my eamil... will get off line and hope and pray for my dad...
if i get a call for good, tonight, i will email you, too...
since you asked and will update the post on my daddy...
thank you for the fun!!
and remember, this was a joint effort... (NO not THAT kind) (or THAT kind)
but the one-body-group-joint effort,
or this never would have worked out...
i may have done the listin'
but THEY did the pickin'
:)
and, well, fletcher and iloilo
did the postal-pitchnin'
edit:
wow, WOW!!! HOW PRETTY... very pretty!!!
wow, neat fruitcake, faraelfae...
can't wait for you to get home and see this!
wow! course, i know you SAW it, but you get to see it EATEN NOW!
say, mouse, was the cheese still good?
all, some, or one?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 28, 2013 - 02:29pm PT
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hey there say, ...look ron... look!!!
see mouse open!
see mouse have fun!!!
run ron run!!
hmmm, now, just where have heard'tell talk like that.. ;)
(actually, i vaguely remember those reading books, such as that, when
i was a little kid) :)
wow, ron!! it GOT HERE!!!!! WOW!
got to let nita and andy know,
skully, jaybro...
zbrown, for sure must be aroudn...
i will send a facebook note to lilabiene...
fletcher needs to know, and johntp, etc...
and me, ;)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 28, 2013 - 02:51pm PT
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As my late honey sez:
"Everyday should be like Christmas."
Liz was one of the ladies in town with a House of Lloyd's Christmas Around the World franchise.
I'd like to say to THE BRAVE COWBOY, that your selection of the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense is my current musical ideel. Thank you for posting that on the TH thread, it's making my day. Nothing could be this much fun. Heaven must be a place like this Taco Stand. With plush chairs and remote controls and bus-putti.
And drumming, good f-ing drumming!
"Tell me what you see?
With a little practice..."--D. Byrne
People asked a while ago, shaking their heads in aghastness,
"What is this thread?"
It ain't no party, it ain't no disco, it ain't Mariposa, it's still a Burning Question in the mouse house.
Where now, zBrown cow?
Holstein? Guernsey? Jersey?[Click to View YouTube Video]Nothing like it in Middle Earth.
I'm going fishing instead.
A new set of Clue solutions for any clueless ones:
At Mike's with Marcel and his mom and his boy, on the dock, with a "priest."
Where the water's clean,
The trout are mean,
The the worms come clean,
Nawmean?
On the banks of the Old Merc,
With Wyoming in my back yard,
Life used to be so hard.
Now everything's easier
And I can run a yard in 6/10 of a mile
And that rhymes with smile.
Some won't get that, others will.
When they go to bed, they might be smiling still.
The thread too tough to die.
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Gene
climber
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Dec 28, 2013 - 03:23pm PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Dec 28, 2013 - 03:34pm PT
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Whatever happens... don't let the thread runaway from Merced... it's giving a unique insight into a local American community.. and it's giving high value on the other side of the pond... keep up the good work...
Once more OT: Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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